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Direct linkKoselak, Jeremy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
One high-leverage strategy rooted in a strong research base--the revitalized tutoring center--provides a wealth of opportunity to students who may be otherwise underserved. This embedded, open-all-day tutoring center supports collaborative teacher teams by using peer tutors and community volunteers. By centralizing resources and providing supports…
Descriptors: High School Students, Tutorial Programs, Tutors, Peer Teaching
Jacob, Robin; Armstrong, Catherine; Bowden, A. Brooks; Pan, Yilin – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
This study evaluates the impacts and costs of the Reading Partners program, which uses community volunteers to provide one-on-one tutoring to struggling readers in under-resourced elementary schools. The evaluation uses an experimental design. Students were randomly assigned within 19 different Reading Partners sites to a program or control…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Tutorial Programs, Randomized Controlled Trials, Tutors
Peer reviewedNational Elementary Principal, 1971
Volunteer reading tutors have chalked up impressive successes in helping children who have reading disorders. (RA)
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Improvement, Tutorial Programs, Volunteers
Johnson-Glenberg, Mina C. – Educational Media International, 2010
This research examined the impact of formative quizzes on e-learning designed to teach volunteers how to tutor struggling readers. Three research questions were addressed: (1) Do embedded quizzes facilitate learning of e-content? (2) Does the announcement of upcoming quizzes affect learning? (3) Does prior knowledge interact with quizzing and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Prior Learning, Testing, Adult Learning
Download full textSakar, A. Nurhan; Ozturk, Oznur – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
In 2006, following the Bologna Process, Turkish Council of Higher Education (YOK) adopted a resolution and changed the curriculum of teacher training higher education institutions. This curriculum revision introduced a new course called "Community Service" which aims to raise students' awareness of their responsibilities as individuals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Blended Learning, Web Based Instruction
Peer reviewedMcGuire, Agnes C. – School Management, 1974
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Tutorial Programs, Volunteer Training
Rogers, Joy J. – Lifelong Learning, 1984
Volunteer participation in adult literacy programs can be encouraged by (1) stressing the goals of helping individuals and long-term social value, (2) gearing expectations to students' abilities and progress, (3) emphasizing pragmatic methods to achieve students' goals, (4) stressing teaching methods adapted from daily interaction, and (5)…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Participation, Reading Instruction, Tutorial Programs
Invernizzi, Marcia; Juel, Connie – 1998
The "Book Buddies" manual and "Emergent Reader" training videos provide comprehensive and easy-to-implement guidelines for setting up and running a successful tutorial program in the early grades. Portraying the "Book Buddies" model in practice, this 51-minute videotape entitled "Emergent Reader--Day One"…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Hammond, Shirley D. – 1999
This handbook has been developed to offer guidelines and suggestions to volunteers in mentoring programs to help them strengthen the mentoring relationship. The program for which the handbook was designed, the Mentor/Tutor Network in Madison, Wisconsin, has evolved into a comprehensive support system for schools to collaborate with community…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Mentors, Program Development, Program Implementation
Yeager, Robert – Nation's Schools, 1974
Describes how some San Francisco businessmen encourage employees to tutor school children on company time. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Remedial Programs, School Business Relationship
De Pillis, Susan – American School Board Journal, 1982
Describes how a senior citizen volunteer tutor program at Emerson Elementary School in Riverside (California) achieved success through careful preparation, staff and student cooperation, extra effort to find interested senior citizens, and continual expression of appreciation to volunteers. Presents 17 hints on starting a grandpeople project. (RW)
Descriptors: Affection, Elementary Education, Older Adults, Program Development
Hall, Lee E. – 1980
To provide assistance to South Carolina schools in developing volunteer tutorial programs, the Competency Testing Project at Winthrop College created this manual on program development. This manual is designed to be duplicated and disseminated to coordinators and tutors; and although designed for an elementary school program, it can be used as a…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Elementary Education, Program Development, Remedial Programs
Peer reviewedPeck, Jacqueline K. – Ohio Reading Teacher, 2000
Shares Governor Taft's literacy goals and insights with the reading professionals throughout the state who work with Ohio's young readers and their volunteer tutors. Shares the perspectives of Nancy Padak and Janet Day, members of the OhioReads Council, on the progress and promise of OhioReads. Invites readers' responses--as teachers, as…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Right to Read Program. – 1974
The intent of this handbook is to provide guidelines for tutor-trainers, reading directors, and the community coordinators who need help in organizing programs for training reading tutors. The handbook is divided into three parts. "Reading Directors' Organizational Guidelines" is intended to give direction necessary to form the support…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Elementary Education, Guidelines, Instructional Materials
Svicarovich, John, Ed. – 1974
It is the intent of this manual to show how a volunteer tutoring program can be implemented and maintained in any community that desires to individualize institutional learning programs through tutoring. The manual attempts to describe the requirements and development of a tutoring program in generic terms; however, it often cites examples from…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Individualized Programs, Program Development
